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...that Americans have their heads in the sand in regard to civil defense [Aug. 25]. Rather, the terror and horror of thermonuclear attack is comprehensible to even the dullest imagination...
...drink, but I discovered alcohol is the dullest form of escape I've ever experienced in my rigid adventures. During this otiose period I was continually accompanied by a large bottle of Scotch for which I had (and have) the utmost contempt. So with great character I exorcised this minor unsatisfactory pleasure abruptly and have not drunk since 1954. I still carry a big bottle around with me, but I don't drink...
Novelist Wyndham well knows the first rule in writing a chiller-effective specters must be ectoplasmatter-of-fact-and so he takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich...
...story of Dreyfus' recall, retrial, re-conviction, and eventual pardon, vindication and restoration to rank forms one of the most dramatic chapters in French history; but it makes the dullest part of this picture. In this part of the real story, the center of interest naturally shifts from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what...
...young and touching in such scenes from what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded midriff, seem intolerably long...